Archaeology

Why are so many of us attracted to cemeteries full of strangers? It's a question author Lola Haskins raises in her preface to "Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed" (University Press of Florida).

"Maybe it's the stories that draw us in, the ones we get to make up as if we were children again," Haskins muses — the stories we might concoct, for example, about a particularly eloquent or enigmatic inscription on a headstone.

Several years ago, I stumbled across such an inscription in a Georgia cemetery: "He glittered when he walked." Sounds sort of amusing, except that it's a line from Edward Arlington Robinson's great 1897 poem...

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